Also, as mentioned in the article, one in six adults binge drink four times a month, and he seemed the most likely to adapt to this behavior if allowed (Almendrala, 2016).
Opposite to Larry, Elizabeth was a little miss goody two-shoes. She was the person I was most interested to find information about. She is native to India, and was placed in Mother Theresa’s Orphanage as a young girl. She is completely blind, and is affected by Echolalia. The reason I was so intrigued with her is because, like many others, she was so intelligent. Her short term memory (working memory) was just about as awful as awful could get. But alike to what some research shows, her long term memory is absolutely astonishing. On my third day volunteering, a phone …show more content…
I do think this is because a lot of the topics we covered pertained to a healthy “normal” population, and it is tough for many of these disabled people to accomplish “normal” developmental tasks. One of the bigger subjects we talked about that I didn’t notice at WACOSA was Erikson’s idea of generativity. This is a huge part of someone’s life as they begin to age and think about what they are leaving behind. If they don’t achieve generativity then they will head toward stagnation (Santrock, 2008, p. 486). For the clients, this thought has probably never crossed their mind because they don’t have grandchildren, jobs, much of a religion, etc. The different types of generativity are biological, cultural, work, and parental (Santrock, 2008, p. 486). It was uncommon to see the clients I worked with have any of these types of generativity mostly because they didn’t have the ability, or maybe didn’t think about leaving something behind for the next …show more content…
To the best of my knowledge, none of the clients I knew were married. This then leads me to believe they have not experienced commitment, passion, or intimacy in a relationship-like way in which Sternberg talks about in his triarchic theory of love (Santrock, 2008, p. 440). Not having relationships like this can lead to isolation, in Erikson’s stage of intimacy vs isolation (Santrock, 2008, p. 438). I think this was a big problem amongst the group of clients I worked with because many of them have been diagnosed with depression, and I think this isolation factor could have played a big role in that
Opposite to Larry, Elizabeth was a little miss goody two-shoes. She was the person I was most interested to find information about. She is native to India, and was placed in Mother Theresa’s Orphanage as a young girl. She is completely blind, and is affected by Echolalia. The reason I was so intrigued with her is because, like many others, she was so intelligent. Her short term memory (working memory) was just about as awful as awful could get. But alike to what some research shows, her long term memory is absolutely astonishing. On my third day volunteering, a phone …show more content…
I do think this is because a lot of the topics we covered pertained to a healthy “normal” population, and it is tough for many of these disabled people to accomplish “normal” developmental tasks. One of the bigger subjects we talked about that I didn’t notice at WACOSA was Erikson’s idea of generativity. This is a huge part of someone’s life as they begin to age and think about what they are leaving behind. If they don’t achieve generativity then they will head toward stagnation (Santrock, 2008, p. 486). For the clients, this thought has probably never crossed their mind because they don’t have grandchildren, jobs, much of a religion, etc. The different types of generativity are biological, cultural, work, and parental (Santrock, 2008, p. 486). It was uncommon to see the clients I worked with have any of these types of generativity mostly because they didn’t have the ability, or maybe didn’t think about leaving something behind for the next …show more content…
To the best of my knowledge, none of the clients I knew were married. This then leads me to believe they have not experienced commitment, passion, or intimacy in a relationship-like way in which Sternberg talks about in his triarchic theory of love (Santrock, 2008, p. 440). Not having relationships like this can lead to isolation, in Erikson’s stage of intimacy vs isolation (Santrock, 2008, p. 438). I think this was a big problem amongst the group of clients I worked with because many of them have been diagnosed with depression, and I think this isolation factor could have played a big role in that